Watch Out Super Soakers – Soy Absorbs 40 Times Its Weight
In Spain, researchers altered the composition of soy to design a new bioplastic that can absorb up to 40 times its own weight. Since...
U.S. Navy Taps into Hagfish Slime for Military Defense
In Florida, U.S. Navy scientists and engineers have recreated a synthetic version of biomaterial hagfish slime for use in military settings. The Naval Surface...
Hydrogels Offer Hope for Wound Victims with Super Healing Blood Clotting
In Massachusetts, researchers at MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering developed a hydrogel biomaterial, mostly made of water, mixed with gelatin proteins and inorganic silica...
Smell that smell? Not with Noble’s new anti-odor clothing
In Pennsylvania, Noble Biomaterials is partnering with the Lenzing Group on new textiles using Noble’s anti-odor technology. Noble is known for its antimicrobial and...
Fortress Paper Expands Investment into Hemicellulose as Biomaterials Feedstock
In British Columbia, Fortress Paper Ltd., which focuses on dissolving pulp and security paper products, has broken out into the renewable energy area and...
Seafood Shells Too Good to Throw Away – Shells Offer Alternative to Limestone
In Belgium, researchers are looking at seafood industry shell waste as a valuable biomaterial to be used to restore oyster reefs. Usually thrown in...
Christopher McNulty New CFO of InVivo
In Massachusetts, InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp., a biomaterials and biomedicals company focused on spinal cord injuries, hired Christopher McNulty as CFO as of March...
Novamont Says 40% Minimum Bio-based Material for All Its Bioplastics
In Italy, biotech company Novamont is introducing a 40% minimum threshold for bio-based content in all of its MATER-BI compostable bioplastics, not just in...
Biodegradable Plastics in a Show Down with Fossil Fuel Plastics – Who Wins?
In New Jersey, in one corner there are biodegradable plastics and in another corner, fossil fuel based plastics, with consumers sitting in the stands...
Research Team Creates New Company, Spinthesis, for Spider Silk Biomaterial Production
In North Dakota, North Dakota State University researchers are finding ways to use spider silk as flexible metal conductors and in medical treatments. The...
